Tag: Worsening Insecurity

Worsening Insecurity: El-Rufa’i writes Buhari, says terrorists creating ‘parallel’ govt. in Kaduna

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Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, has said terrorists are consolidating their grip on communities in the state with a “parallel” government and “permanent operational base”. The Governor, who reportedly disclosed this in a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, warned the president of the terrorists’ consolidation. The report said terrorists belonging to Ansaru ‘al-Musulmina fi Bilad al-Sudan‘, or Ansaru in local parlance, are believed to have moved to Birnin-Gwari in the State in 2012, when they broke away from Boko Haram. According to sources, the terrorists that formed Ansaru were…

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Escalating Insecurity: ”Set up security outfit in Kaduna”, SOKAPU tells el-Rufa’i

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Against the backdrop of the insecurity bedevilling the country, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has urged the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufa’i to set up a security outfit like the governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom did. According to an issued statement signed by SOKAPU’s acting president, Awemi Dio Maisamari, “We also believe that if governor el-Rufa’i and others should welcome and implement the Volunteers Guards initiative of Governor Ortom, the thousands of captives in the dens of kidnappers would be rescued and the culprits brought to…

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Insecurity: Northerners in fear as IPOB kills 8 Nigeriens in Imo

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Fear among northerners living in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has heightened following the killing of eight Niger Republic indigenes (Nigeriens) by members of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). According to reports, the attack occurred on Monday, when the assailants attacked a building at Orogwe, Owerri, occupied by mainly Hausa migrants from Nigeria and the Niger Republic. The northerners said the building was attacked because IPOB assumed all of them living in the area to be migrants from the North, not knowing that the victims were foreigners. They…

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Worsening Insecurity: ‘Buhari can proceed on leave, allow someone else rule Nigeria’ – Kadaria Ahmed

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Nigerian journalist and Chief Executive Officer of RadioNow, Kadaria Ahmed, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to proceed on sick leave and allow somebody to run the affairs of the country, due the deteriorating security challenges. Ahmed has been in the news for describing a recent BBC documentary on Zamfara banditry as “irresponsible reporting”. In an opinion article published last week, Ahmed said the BBC documentary fell below the best practices of journalism, and was against public interest. She said the BBC Africa Eye may be charged with aiding terrorism…

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Insecurity: Kaduna, Benue Borno, top unsafe States – Report

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…As terrorists kill 7,222, abduct 3,823 in seven months  Terrorists, bandits and other assailants have killed 7,222 persons and kidnapped 3,823 individuals in the country between January, 1 and July 29, 2022, according to data from the Nigeria Security Report, published by Beacon Consulting – a security risk management and intelligence consulting company. Borno State, the stronghold of Boko Haram terrorists, recorded the highest deaths of 163 people within the period under review, while Benue State, which appeared the most hounded State in the Middle-Belt, came second with 90 fatalities.…

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Insecurity: CSO threatens protest, gives Buhari 2-week ultimatum to sack Monguno

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A civil society organisation (CSO), The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA), has threatened to “occupy the office” of the National Security Adviser (NSA) if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to sack him. The group had earlier asked the NSA, Babagana Monguno, to resign over the insecurity in the country. On Sunday, a Senator representing Niger-East, Sani Musa, also criticised the NSA for not being the first to inform President Buhari of a threat by bandits to kidnap him. In a statement issued on Monday, signed by the AYA spokesman, Mohammed Danlami, the…

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Insecurity may soon consume Nigeria – Sultan

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…As 20 drown trying to escape bandits in Sokoto  The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji (Dr.) Sa’ad Abubakar, has warned that the rising insecurity in Nigeria may consume the nation if urgent steps are not taken by the Federal Government and other stakeholders involved in the management of the country, to rescue the situation.  The Sultan, who spoke at a valedictory dinner in honour of the immediate-past President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Samson Ayokunle Olasupo, in Abuja, said that insecurity has touched everybody irrespective of…

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Escalating Insecurity: Nigerians tired, gravitating towards self-help ? NSA Monguno 

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The National Security Council is working on new strategies to curtail the worsening insecurity in the country as it observed that Nigerians are tired and gravitating towards self-help. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd), stated this while briefing correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday. Joined by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali, he noted that the country is in a difficult situation, saying that the President is aware of the people’s…

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Worsening Insecurity: ‘Buhari-Must-Go’ Senators demand sack of President, stage walk-out

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Some senators from the opposition political parties at the National Assembly yesterday walked out of the Red Chamber in protest at the worsening insecurity situation in the country. The senators walked out on the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, after he allegedly refused the Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, to allow them to lead the motion on the impeachment of the President. It was learnt that some lawmakers that were displeased with the worsening security situation in the country had threatened to impeach the President.  The Senators from the opposition parties have…

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Insecurity: Terrorists planning to attack Lagos, FCT, Buhari’s State, 2 others  – NSCDC

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have raised the alarm over a possible planned attack on the home-state of President Muhammadu Buhari, Katsina as well as Lagos, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), among others. These were contained in a leaked report, titled: “Re: Heightened plots by terrorists to stage coordinated attacks in parts of the country” and signed by the Deputy Commandant-General Controller in-charge of Operations, DD Mungadi,   addressed to all its Commands, dated July 25. The NSCDC stated that from the intelligence it gathered, Boko Haram and Islamic…

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